Jump to navigation Jump utz party mix search U. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Utz, is a large American snack food company based in Hanover, Pennsylvania.
Success soon allowed the couple to move operations to a small concrete building in the family’s backyard. In 1938, production was boosted with the purchase of an automatic fryer capable of producing 300 pounds of chips per hour. Rice joined the Utz Company after marrying William and Salie’s daughter Arlene Utz. Salie Utz died in 1965 and Bill died in 1968, at which time Rice became president of the company. The company purchased two more Hanover-based production facilities during the 1970s. Rice retired in 1978, and his son Michael became company president, while Arlene Utz Rice remained as the company’s chairman of the board. Utz’s largest production facility and home of its current administrative headquarters was completed in 1983.
In the late 1980s, sales of Utz pretzels began growing by 20 percent annually and, by 1991, pretzel sales comprised almost 10 percent of total revenue. In the summer of 1992, Utz added a third pretzel oven and began baking pretzels around the clock. 100 million and its employee base had reached 1,000. In 1996, the company celebrated its 75th anniversary. By 1999, a new public website also allowed customers to purchase Utz products for at-home delivery. A 2010 plan to merge Utz with rival Snyder’s of Hanover was blocked by the U. In 2011 Utz Brands acquired Zappe Endeavors and its affiliated entities which manufacture and market Zapp’s, Dirty’s and California Chips brand potato chips.